Trump campaign uses fallen soldiers’ remains as merch-adjacent content after families asked for privacy
At the request of families, a recent dignified transfer ceremony for fallen U.S. service members at Dover Air Force Base was closed to cameras, a long-standing policy meant to respect grieving relatives.
So naturally, the White House released photos anyway, and then the Trump campaign repurposed those images for social media posts promoting “fallen heroes” conveniently linked to accounts that also funnel users to a store selling MAGA hats.
While press access to the ceremony was restricted in accordance with the families’ wishes, the campaign repurposed the official images released by the White House for official campaign social media accounts.
The official “Team Trump” accounts on Facebook, Instagram, and Threads posted a modified version of one image, splitting it in two and adding the text “God Bless our Fallen Soldiers,” alongside a caption that read, “God bless the six American heroes who made the ultimate sacrifice defending our freedom.”
Their loved ones died in an unjustified war to distract from Trump’s Epstein problems, and now those deaths are turned into a commercial. The families asked for privacy to avoid exactly this.